Review on 💪 High-Performance QNAP 4-Bay NAS/iSCSI IP-SAN | AMD R Quad-core, 10G-ready (TVS-473e-4G-US) by Tim Kallimanis

When I bought this I had a vision of a centralized NAS that would serve multiple purposes (shared drives, backup, media server, DNS server, DVR). Unfortunately, documentation is lacking, performance is lower than I expected, and some of the tasks I had in mind just can't be done. After purchase I added 32GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. First, it only supports SATA M.2 SSDs, not NVMe. Second, the SSD works so hard that it's practically useless. Even after adding a huge heatsink to the SSD, it still gets very hot. The extra RAM I added is never used unless I'm running containers that require it. RAID's data access speed and rebuild time is quite slow compared to the old Linux system it replaces. QNAP is promoting Media Transcoding, but as far as I know it is no longer possible to use it. It looks like QNAP has quietly removed this feature. QVR Pro for Surveillance was so buggy that I bought a Hikvision NVR instead of using it. Setting up shared drives also proved to be a difficult task. The initial setup seemed easy, but the transfer speed was terrible. It took a lot of research before everything finally worked properly. If you're working with Plex, it also works great transferring music files or 1080p videos, but it just can't handle 4k video files. I want to buy a faster one or just build a new 8 bay Linux box.